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02-22-2013, 10:47 AM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Danville, VA
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| At what age did your fur babies start to sleep with you? Just kinda curious. I would love to have Bentley sleep with me but he is just 12 1/2 weeks old so I'm sure it's too soon. He sleeps real well in his bedtime crate so it's not a matter of him needing it. I just want my baby with me. He's gotten real consistent and whimpers for a 5am poop run. I try to take him back to bed with me for that last hour but all he wants at that point is to devil, and he's still in the play bite stage so I don't go for that. Back in his crate he goes. My guess is 6 month of age. Figured he'd be fully house broken by then, and I could trust him if he roams in my room at nite. So if you let your fur babies sleep with you at what age did you allow it?
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02-22-2013, 10:52 AM | #2 |
Cedric♥Lola♥Keylo Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Gilford, NH, USA
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| mine have all slept with me since the first day i had them. just remember though imo once they do they will never wanna sleep in another place. when cedric was a baby he just adjusted to lights out means no playing or biting or what not....it's sleep time. they do have stairs so if they are thirsty or need to potty on their pad they can go up and down as needed. we got cedric at 11 weeks and keylo at 15ish weeks and lola was 4 1.2 years old when she came to us.
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02-22-2013, 10:53 AM | #3 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: Garner, NC
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| Gosh...I want to say up until a year? Toki loved the heck out of her crate and woul take toys in there and take naps there and even took herself to bed. Once we started putting her in our bed though, we ruined her hahaha. She still does well in crates at the vet and day cares and we put her in it for long car rides. But she loves being in bed with us |
02-22-2013, 10:54 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member | Clyde started sleeping in my bed with me from the moment I brought him home. He was 4 months old at that point. Dexter slept in a crate on my bed for the first two weeks, and then after that he slept without the crate on my bed (Dexter was about 14 weeks old). |
02-22-2013, 10:55 AM | #5 |
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| I will also add that putting her in bed with us wasn't really related to her potty training progress. She has always done pretty well with housebreaking but I just was nervous about our bed being so high and her being so small. Our bed is now on the box spring on the floor and she is big enough to where I don't worry so much. |
02-22-2013, 11:19 AM | #6 |
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02-22-2013, 11:20 AM | #7 |
Princess Sophie's Choice Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Clinton, IL, DeWitt County
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| I think it's also important to look at how high your bed is off the ground. I have seen other YTers post that their beds are on the floor so they don't have far to go should they fall off the bed. We aren't letting Princess Sophie sleep with us until she's much older and we have added stairs that she can navigate as out bed is a 4-poster and very high off the ground. Now with that said I will admit that after she goes potty early in the morning I usually bring her into bed with me as long as she will cuddle and go back to sleep. LOL But then I don't really get to go back to sleep. We have already discovered that Sophie needs less sleep than I do. LOL
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02-22-2013, 11:43 AM | #8 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Danville, VA
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| Yes, I definitely need doggie steps. I guess I'll keep trying to get him to settle down in the bed with me early morning and see where it goes from there. That would be helpful 2 fold. My biggest issue is for him play=bite mommy. If he would just play with a toy on the bed I would be fine with that as a start. Maybe I can finally get through to him bite=no mommy after putting him in his kennel enough times. lol
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02-22-2013, 11:51 AM | #9 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: splendora, tx
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| Chloe has slept with us since I brought her home at 9 weeks. When she needs to go out, she just whines and I get up with her.
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02-22-2013, 11:56 AM | #10 |
Katie Scarlett's Mommy Donating Member | When we brought KS home at 14 weeks I swore I was going to be one of those moms who did not allow the dog in the bed with us. I think in total she's slept in her big girl bed about 10 times since we got her....in Oct 2011. So needless to say, she wiggled her way into our bed very early and has been there ever since. I usually wake at least once a night to potty and let her down with me. She goes to her pad and then we go back to bed together.
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02-22-2013, 12:06 PM | #11 |
YT 2000 Club Member | My pups have slept in our bed since day one! Just remember, they will always want to sleep with you if you start this. I personally love it but not all people do. We have never used a crate except when we are gone for short periods. Actually Teeka has never been in a crate and she is 7 months.
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02-22-2013, 12:24 PM | #12 |
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| The first night I got her.
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02-22-2013, 12:35 PM | #13 |
YT 500 Club Member | Second night I got her. 10 weeks old. Did fin in crate first night, then second night cried to come out. Put her to bed with us and she fell asleep. Been sleeping all night since then!
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02-22-2013, 02:38 PM | #14 |
YT Addict Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Reading, PA, USA
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| From day one, lol. Pixie at any rate. Sabre doesn't like to sleep with us in the bed. Given a choice, he will sleep on the floor. When he's feeling particularly affectionate, he'll sleep on a corner of the bed. I remember the first time he actually slept with us the full night. I felt like he had decided we weren't too bad and he liked us after all. He was about 5 months I believe. But Sabre is truly a big dog in a little dog body. He doesn't do the lap dog thing, being much more comfortable curled at your feet or in front of the electric fireplace like he's a labrador or something. And when he does decide to join us in bed, his spot is at the foot of the bed. Midget like Pixie, from day one, they jostle for preferential spot next to me. Fatty the foster maltese started hopping on the bed with us about a week after she moved in. She is either on the floor at the foot of the bed, or at the foot of the bed, on the opposite side from Sabre. I'm a light sleeper, and I prefer having babies in bed with me, because I can feel when they shift, and can tell if the babies have to go potty. I think this is why Pixie was pad trained completely inside 2 weeks, and we're still working on Sabre. Midget is mostly pad trained, and I think her accidents are her following behind Sabre and not Pixie.
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02-22-2013, 04:07 PM | #15 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: montana
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| Morgan slept with us at age of 5 months if we didn't he would want up every 3 hours to go outside to go potty but the minute we put him in bed he sleeps all night long |
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